. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jan 1.

Published in final edited form as: Tuberculosis (Edinb). 2008 Oct 9;89(1):38–47. doi: 10.1016/j.tube.2008.08.002

TABLE 1. Cell Subpopulations in BAC and PBMC.

BAC or PBMC (2 × 10⁵ each) were surface stained with PerCp (CD3), and FITC (CD4, CD8, CD56, γδ TCR)-labeled anti-human monoclonal antibodies and analyzed by FACS analysis. Lymphocytes in BAC and PBMC were assessed in a CD3⁺ vs. SSC gate and NK cells in a FSC vs. SSC gate using Cell Quest software. Except for BAC numbers in BALF, values represent median percentages of CD3⁺ T cells or NK cells within BAC and PBMC (bold numbers) and 25 and 75 percentiles (in parentheses).

	CC (n=13)		TB (n=8)
	BAC	PBMC	BAC	PBMC
# BAC/10 ml BALF [10⁶]	1.4 (0.9–1.8)	-	2.3 (1.4–2.7)	-
% CD3⁺ BAC	5 (2–15) ^*	-	15 (8–26)	-
% CD3⁺ CD4⁺	48 (45–51)^*	59 (56–66) ^**	70 (57–72)	62 (53–67)
% CD3⁺ CD8⁺	27 (17–38)	23 (15–27)	20 (15–28)	26 (18–27)
% CD3⁺ CD56⁺	10 (6–13)	3 (2–8)	7 (5–9)	7 (5–8)
% CD3⁻ CD56⁺	4 (3–6)	14 (10–21) ^**	3 (3–4)	16 (13–20) ^**
% CD3⁺ γδ TCR⁺	7 (3–10) ^*	3 (2–5) ^**	5 (4–7)	5 (4–7)

Significances: p ≤0.05, CC vs. TB in BAC

^**

p ≤0.05, BAC vs. autologous PBMC (Mann-Whitney U test).